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Dossier: Studying Film and TV Actors (and Their Intermediaries): A Cultural and Industrial Approach
No full textChecco Zalone: Popular Performance, Italian Masculinity, and Transmedia Promotion
No full textOver the past 15 years, Checco Zalone, born Luca Medici, has been the
most striking national box-office success and ignited widespread interest
among journalists and thinkers. His celebrity has been discussed as a
mirror to the many pitfalls and few virtues of the national character. Film
scholar Gianni Canova describes him as “the most powerful comedy’s
mask in contemporary Italy. He represents this latter as much as Fantozzi
did with Italy in the 1970s and Totò in the 1950s” (Canova 2016,
22). Otherwise, Zalone has been described as an alternative to come-
dians’ Leftist political engagement: a champion of a commercial, tasteless
mode of addressing the lowest instincts of the audience. TV critic Renato
Franco openly condemned the comedian: “Comedy’s new messiah is a
prophet of ignorance, a champion of chauvinism, an idol of vulgarity. But
believers gather in mass at his service” (Franco 2011, 15). Such controver-
sies discuss Zalone as substantiating pre-existing sharp alternatives within
Italian society and culture. However, this chapter assumes that the reasons
for his success lie elsewhere. Therefore, it will scrutinize Zalone through
three lenses: media production, genres, and performers; masculinity; and
promotional strategie
Book review of Francesco Pitassio, Neorealist Film Culture 1945-1954: Rome, Open Cinema
No full textBook review of Francesco Pitassio, Neorealist Film Culture 1945-1954: Rome, Open Cinema
Documentare il trauma L’Università Castrense di San Giorgio di Nogaro: saperi e immagini nella Grande guerra
No full textImmagini, scritture, saperi. Gli studi sul trauma e la vicenda dell’Università Castrense
Full text linkFrom Rubble to Ruins. War Destruction, Postwar Reconstruction, and Tamed Modernization
No full textThis chapter focuses on the role non-fiction cinema played in depicting
the destruction caused by warfare and the effort of reconstruction. The
basic assumption, which refers to the work of philosopher Michel de
Certeau and social anthropologist Paul Connerton, is that urban space
brings together two features: on the one hand, it is a built environment;
on the other hand, its appropriation and experience create memory and
identity. The postwar era set a major task for European nations: How to
reconstruct urban environments and mend the social fabric? Focusing
on examples from Italy, France, and Germany, this chapter discusses how
non-fiction cinema contributed to promoting this endeavor and negotiated
new urban spaces with reference to previous experience and traditions,
in narrative and visual terms
L'immagine della critica, la critica dell'immagine. La cultura visuale delle riviste cinematografiche italiane
No full textL'immagine della critica, la critica dell'immagine. La cultura visuale delle riviste cinematografiche italiane
No full textImmagni industriose. Film e fotografia industriali nella cultura visuale italiana: interfaccia, evento, archivio (1945-1963)
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